Fiscal conservatives lately have argued that the federal government should spend as it did before COVID-19 ruined everything.

Thankfully, the global pandemic is a speck in the rear-view mirror. Only a few diehards cling bitterly to their masks and grow misty with lockdown nostalgia.

Restoring spending to its trajectory in Fiscal Year 2019 — the last before COVID wandered out of China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology — could be treacherous, even for die-hard budget hawks.

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